LAS VEGAS — The last time Tyson Fury and Deontay Wilder stood face-to-face, it was in June at a news conference in Los Angeles. They stared into each other’s eyes for more than six minutes without moving.
But on Wednesday, three days before they meet for the third time with Fury’s WBC heavyweight title on the line at T-Mobile, promoter Bob Arum saw to it that there wasn’t another one.
After a contentious news conference in which Fury and Wilder hurled insults at each other during a made-for-TV event in which the only one who had an opportunity to ask questions was Fox’s Kate Abdo, she invited Fury and Wilder to square off.